Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1935, Page 25

DAILY SHORT STORY- CLOTH OF GOLD By Leonora TANITA had quimerns, A(uund the I money in the cloth || of gold evening slippers which were heelless and laced over the instep in the latest fashion One hundred dol- tars in bills stuffed | in the toe of the vight slipper. * And now Anita Wwas on her way to return the money to Mrs. Heming- way at her home n Wesley Heights. Anita worked in the Economy Bhoppe, where rich * women who were tired of their ex- pensive clothes could leave them for sale at reason- able prices to less fortunate women. Mrs. Hemingway had brought the slippers, a cloth of gold evening dress which exuded rare perfume from its | stiff, shining folds, and a white quilt- ed coat to the shop herself that morning instead of sending her maid, es she often did. Mrs. Hemingway was beautiful, like the clothes she wore—a widow and reputedly wealthy. She was often to | be seen driving about Washington in | her big tan car or entering some well | known restaurant with a man-—never the same one. * ok Kk "JUST a few little things that were cluttering up the closet,” she had #aid in her soft, slurring tones, depos- Iting the neat box upon the counter. “I'm sure that we can dispose of them at once,” Anita’s voice was a fair imitation of Mrs. Hemingway's own. It was by way of being the best imitation Anita could do after | hours of practice before the cracked | mirror of her boarding house. “You wish Mrs. Alton to put her own price on the articles as usual?” Mrs. | Hemingway had smiled and nodded. Anita noted the way Mrs. Hemingway's gray suit fitted over her slim, rounded body, the deep pur- ple of her eyes matching the hot- | house violets on her silver tox scarf, | the white of her flesh—like a gar- | denia. thought Anita. who had never owned a gardenia—the pale gold of | her hair, like honey. | Suddenly, Anita hated her own eyves, which were just an ordinary blue; her hair, which was frankly | red, and her skin from which no| amount of cosmetics could Tremove | the sprinkling of honest freckles. She felt awkward and commonplace, the | way a radish might feel alongside an orchid, Anita had made out a receipt for the clothes and Mrs. Hemingway had | put it in the gold-mounted, hand tooled gray bag. And then she was | gone. There was only the faint, sweet | smell of rare perfume in the dingy shop. x ANITA picked up the gold dress ! and held its shiningness against | the coarseness of her woolen dress. Bhe knew that she meant to buy the dress and the slippers. She meant to own them, possess them. If it took her last cent. I ROUT The man's voice was grufl.” | Anita. M(cPheeters. Mrs. Alton came in shortly and Anita made ar- rangements to pay for the dress and the slippers, 8o much out of her wages every week. She would do with- out lunch to save the money. No matter! She longed for 5 oclock so that she might go home and try them on, look at herself in the cracked mir- ror in her room. It was 4 o'clock, during a dull mo- ment, that Anita, inspecting the slip- pers with the pride of new ownership, found the bills stuffed in the toe of the right slip- per. She did not tell Mrs. Alton of her discovery. Mrs. Alton would only have telephoned Mrs. Hemngway to come to the shop for the money. She wanted to see with her own eyes where Mrs. Hemingway lived; she wished to inspect her idol close at hand, to breathe the very air she breathed. Perhaps Mrs. Hemingway would even ask her to tea, the way they did 1n novels or the movies. Mrs. Hemingway in a tea gown, holding a cup between those long, tapering fingers of hers. b e ND so, at 5 o'clock, Anita was climbing on the bus that went to Wesley Heights, a package under her arm that contained the cloth of gold dress and the slippers, a hundred | dollars in bills stuffed in her worn | purse. Finally, she stood in front of | the place, a large. ugly, pretentious house, although Anita didn’t know that. She saw only its size and the crowd in front on the sidewalk. “Hey, sister, you can't go in there!” It was one of the policemen guarding the steps. “But I have something from the shop for Mrs. Hemingway,” protested “I'm afraid Mrs. Hemingway is be- yond needin’ things from shops.” The man'’s voice was gruff, but not unkind. “What do you mean?” stammered Anita. And yet, perhaps because in- stinctively she knew that beauty is | turers’ perishable, she knew that Mrs. Hem- ingway was dead. “I mean there's been a murder here!” x ok x % BLINDLY. Anita turned away. Mrs. Hemingway had been alive this morning, there had been violets on her gray fur and the odor of rare perfume in the dingy shop . . . and TOW = ‘The crowd milled about the side- | walk. A hoarse, callous voice reached Anita’s ears. “Yep, he shot her, and then turned the pistol on himself . she had nicked him for every cent he had and was threatening to expose him to his wife, they say—" Carefully, as if in & dream, Anita climbed aboard the bus which would take her back home. The money— some of the money, at least, which had cost two people’s lives and that had been handled so carelessly— seemed to burn through her worn purse, The box with the dress and the slippers, which Anita would never wear, lay upon her lap—the dress and the slippers of tarnished cloth of gold. (Copyrizht. 1935.) THAT COLD rLet It Not Hang of Half-way Measures! Beware of the “common cold”! The “common cold”, doctors will ]le]] you, is the cause of more seri- ous trouble than anything else. } Many a person who is in a pneu- 'monia jacket today had but a “common cold” yesterday! ) Neglect no cold. Take no chances ‘mth your treatment. i, Treat a cold with a cold medi- .eine, not a “cure-all”, Treat it also with internal medicine. A cold is an Snternal infection! : Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine s what a cold requires. It is, first of all, a cold tablet, made expressly for colds. Secondly, it is internal ‘medication, fourfold in effect. Here’s what it does: First, it opens the bowels, an wdvisable step in treating a cold ADVERTISEMENT LEARNS MURDERED FATHER'S SECRET on Thru the Use Second, it checks the fever in the system, a vital step. Third, it relieves the headache and fever. Fourth, it tones the system and helps fortify against further attack. ‘When you feel a cold coming on, trust to no makeshift methods. Adopt the course of safety and take Bromo Quinine, Taken promptly, it will often break up a cold in 24 hours and that’s the speedy action you want. Bromo Quinine contains nothing harmful and is safe to take. It is sold by all drug stores. The few pennies’ cost may save you a lot in worry and medical bills. Say “no” to a substitute. ADVERTISEMENT Alfred E. Ricks, oil-well promoter, was shot down by unknown @ssassins yesterday, as he walked into the Perkins’ Lumber Yard, Rushville Center, where his latest promotion was under way. Taken to the home of Ma Per- kins, Ricks asked her to call his 19-year-old daughter Isabel at once. Just before lapsing into- un- consciousness he confesed that . . . This is just one of the many true-life situations that is thrilling | old and new listeners to the Ma Perkins program. (Daily except Saturday and Sunday at 3:15 P.M..over Station WRC.) 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